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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2276164, member: 57495&quot;]I can buy the idea that the Christian rulers of the time were cool with Tyches as symbols/personifications of their cities, disassociated with the worship of her as a goddess. Her appearance on Byzantine coins could thus still be celebrating the city rather than invoking the goddess.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, how do we explain the Festival of Isis issues?&nbsp; Isis, Anubis, Serapis and other pagan deities of Egyptian or Romano-Egyptian flavour featured on coins of that series struck under all the Constantinians. I don&#039;t believe the practice survived Theodosius, but here&#039;s one issued by Gratian with everyone&#039;s favourite jackal-headed god on the reverse:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=74611" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=74611" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=74611</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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